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Miners find 500-year-old shipwreck filled with gold coins in Namibian desert

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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,131 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow. Wreck found in a drained lagoon.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was hoping to see more than one pictureimage..Cool find.
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's a neat story. But I think "filled with gold coins" might be a teensy bit of hyperbole given their valuation of "upwards of £9million"
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great story..and yes, the wreck was not 'filled' with gold coins...there was a chest full of gold coins. Cheers, RickO
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wonder if the insurers are going to try and collect on a percentage of the value?image
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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,131 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: 291fifth
    I wonder if the insurers are going to try and collect on a percentage of the value?image


    Probably not. Portugal relinquished their rights to the wreck.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • MonsterCoinzMonsterCoinz Posts: 1,518 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I love this kind of history. Makes you wonder what else is out there..
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,444 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hope the Namibian government sells it on eBay,... or Amazon. Who cares ? So long as it gets in collector's hands.
  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    Before reading and googling this location, I imagined a ship in the middle of the desert much like the one they found in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but it was found in a old coastal waterway that had been drained, just close to a desert.
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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: 291fifth

    I wonder if the insurers are going to try and collect on a percentage of the value?image




    Best thing would be to melt them and sell the bullion.
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  • hchcoinhchcoin Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool story.

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